Those who lived through the early 1970s Watergate scandal in President Nixon’s second term are probably having feelings of déjà vu.

Why?  There are some unescapable parallels between the sex-trenched “Epstein Files” bruhaha and Nixon’s crimes which led to his downfall.

To explain:

For more than a year, Nixon Republicans supported the president despite mounting evidence that Nixon tried to cover-up the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office-hotel complex on June 17, 1972.

Ever so slowly, very slowly, Republicans began to see to light and one-by-one, they parted with the embattled president.

Then on August 7, 1974 — that anniversary is coming up — three powerful Republicans, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, U.S. House Minority Leader John Rhodes and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, met privately with Nixon.

They told him support was eroding quickly in both the House and Senate and that he probably would be impeached and convicted.  The three maintained they did not advise resignation.

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